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Fox Meadow Educational Technology Committee Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES
Fox Meadow Educational Technology Committee
Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES
Margo Schepart (Intermediate)
Richie Guaragna (Social Studies)[email protected]
Fatima Oliveira (Spanish)
Marianne Rodriguez (Math)
Erik Krantz (Science)
Catherine Armisto (Literacy/Technology)
“If we teach today’s students the way we taught yesterday, we rob them of tomorrow.”
- John Dewey
REMEMBERING:
Recognizing; Highlighting;
Identifying; listing; bullet points;
locating; describing; naming;
searching; bookmarking
UNDERSTANDING
Paraphrase; summarize;
comment; explaining;
advanced searches;
annotating; subscribing
APPLYING
Implementing; carrying out;
playing; uploading; sharing;
editing
ANALYSING
Comparing; attributing; organizing;
structuring; deconstructing; integrating;
mashing; linking; mind-mapping
EVALUATING
Checking; judging; experimenting;
testing; hypothesizing; monitoring;
posting; moderating; critiquing;
reviewing; reflecting; validating
CREATING:
Designing; devising; planning; constructing;
inventing; making; programming; filming;
animating; mixing; remixing; publishing;
wiki; video casting; podcasting; producing;
directing; mash-ups
Wordle
#8. Gather relevant information from multiple
print and digital sources, assess the credibility
and accuracy of each source, and integrate
the information while avoiding plagiarism.
#6. Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing and to interact
and collaborate with others.
#11. Develop personal, cultural, textual, and
thematic connections within and across
genres as they respond to texts through
written, digital, and oral
presentations, employing a variety of media
Description
Makes your stories come
to life
Interactive
Animation
Classroom Applications
Language Learning
History
Civics Debates
Storyboarding
Build Social Skills – Role
Playing
Description
Online multimedia
posters – text, photos,
videos, graphics, sounds,
drawings, data
attachments and more
Collaborative
Classroom Applications
Create movie posters for
novels
Culminating projects
Memoirs
Character analysis
PowerPoint alternative
Reader's Response
Interactive Student
Notebook
#1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a
range of conversations and collaborations
with diverse partners, building on others'
ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.#2. Integrate and evaluate information
presented in diverse media and
formats, including visually, quantitatively, and
orally.#5. Make strategic use of digital media and
visual displays of data to express information
and enhance understanding of presentations.
Description
Upload any picture and
make it talk
Motivating
Increased attention skills
Classroom Applications
Make primary documents,
famous art pieces,
animals, characters from
novels, etc. “talk”
An alternate to an “in
person oral
presentation/speech
Reading fluency
Description
Customize a talking
character
Make your character
speak by adding voice via
microphone, upload or
phone.
The character can also
reading text.
Classroom Applications
Recite poetry
Introduce a topic
Increase reading fluency
Character education
Insert into
PowerPoint, website or
blog
Teaching languages
#7. Integrate and evaluate content presented
in diverse formats and media, including
visually and quantitatively, as well as in
words.
Grade 6 – Compare and contrast the
experience of reading a story, drama, or
poem to listening to or viewing an
audio, video or live version of the
text, including contrasting what they “see”
Description
Visual collection & organizational tool, made simple through the creation of private and shared clipboards.
Can organize your daily life, in and out of school.
Available to anyone with an email.
Apps for Android, iphone & ipad.
Adds a “clipix” tab to your tool bar.
Classroom Applications
Can create a “community”
in which you can view
other members
clipboards.
Students and staff can
share clipboards with the
entire school “community”
or within your
department.
Useful for organizing
student research or
important web resources.
Description
Instant Audience
Feedback
Live Responses
Text via your phone or
respond by an internet
link
Quick and easy
Classroom Applications
Exit ticket
Gauge student
comprehension
Encourage risk taking
Increased participation
Increased Student Participation & Engagement
Utilization of Higher Order Thinking Skills
Student Centered/Independence
Attending Skills
Differentiated Instruction
Blabberize (www.blabberize.com)
Xtranormal (www.xtranormal.com)
Voki (www.voki.com)
Clipix (www.clipix.com)
Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com)
Glogster (www.edu.glogster.com)
Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.com)
Libravox (www.libravox.com)
Awesome Stories (www.awesomestories.com)
What skills do students need to survive and thrive in this new
era?
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